I have been running into the same problem but, unfortunately, in my case
there must be another cause as Haute Secure is not installed on my PC. It has
become a pretty annoying problem: besides getting the error message when
booting up, it turns out that Diskeeper can no longer do a boot-time
defragmentation because it doesn't have direct access, no doubt because of
the same reason. To make matters worse, when trying to do a backup using
Vista's backup module, I get a message there's a problem with my C-drive
(brand-new, by the way, although that doesn't exclude a problem of course),
kindly requesting to run chkdsk... that doesn't work.
There are a few suggestions on the Microsoft sites to solve the problem but
most apply to OSs prior to Vista. The only one that sounds most plausible for
Vista is that a 3rd party virus checker or disk monitor tool are blocking
access to the volume. Disabling an antivirus program doesn't sound like a
healthy decision, though, except to test if this is the cause of the problem.
But then, I have been using Norton AV (Corporate Edition 10.2) before, on
Vista, without running into this problem. Possibly, just possibly, it could
be that after installing and un-installing ZoneAlarm firewall (free version,
v7.1, Vista-ready) and a trial version of Norton Internet Security as
possible alternatives to Vista's built-in firewall, there are still some
leftovers in the registry (although I searched through the registry and
deleted the one ZoneAlarm leftover that I could find).
Prior to doing a clean install and hope for the best, I was wondering if
anyone has had similar problems after having installed ZoneAlarm or Norton IS?
